Shirley Jackson

In this special Pride Month edition of the GLHC podcast, Andrew Robertson interviews queer horror writer and celebrated journalist Michael Rowe. The two discuss his most recent novels Enter, Night and Wildfell, Clive Barker, Christopher Rice, Anne Rice’s universe, homophobia and growing up queer in the ’70s and ’80s, and horror’s efforts to find legitimacy in the literary world. An award-winning journalist, and literary nonfiction writer, Michael is the author of Writing Below the Belt, [READ MORE]

On the eve of the release of his latest novel The Angel of the Abyss (which drops on Halloween from Australia’s Cohesion Press), we are pleased to welcome Hank Schwaeble to the 31 Days of Halloween festivities. He’s also the author of Damnable, Diabolical, the well-received horror noir collection American Nocturne, and number of short stories. Personally, I love that for the “scariest scene he’s read” question Hank’s chosen a book/author that’s unfamiliar to me, because [READ MORE]

Way back before I worked in horror, I became aware of Loren Rhoads through her fascinating magazine Morbid Curiosity, which I regularly sought out at my local Tower Records. Sadly, Morbid Curiosity like that Tower Records store is no more, but the curious-minded can still pick up its book version, Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues. In recent years, Loren has turned her attention to cemeteries (in travelogue-style pieces) and fiction. She’s the co-author (with Brian Thomas) of [READ MORE]

Up until now, we’ve been mixing a little introduction and a little biography for the intros to our 31 Days of Halloween interviews, but today we’re going to change it up a bit and just run our interviewee Hal Bodner’s bio as supplied to us. Why? Because it’s a great bio, and it seems like a sin to paraphrase it. Okay, here we go… Hal Bodner is a Bram Stoker Award nominated author, best known for his [READ MORE]

The second victim… um… no, that’s not right… I mean… volunteer for this month’s “31 Days of Halloween/Scary Stories” launch event is Stoker Award-winning author John Palisano, whose short stories have appeared in anthologies from PS Publishing, Terror Tales, Lovecraft eZine, Horror Library, Bizarro Pulp, Written Backwards, Dark Continents, Darkscribe, DarkFuse, Dark House, and many more. His novels Dust of the Dead and Ghost Heart are available from Samhain; Nerves is out from Bad Moon; and Starlight Drive: [READ MORE]